(alphabetical order )
Alpine:
Academic background in General Engineering at Exeter (UK). Rotated around trad-fi as a graduate manager within a variety of International Banking units. This included some time as a Relationship Manager within Corporate Banking and Business banking; directly reporting to the Group COO in an Ops leadership role, and a bunch of treasury & liquidity stuff. Left to join a Big Tech firm (well known name in online hotels) in the role of Deputy Treasurer, and then quit to go snowboarding and spend time outdoors. Got interested in Bitcoin during the fakedemic when bros had their bank accounts shut down by Trudeau for protesting forced vaxxes. Currently a mountain safety volunteer on the Pacific West Coast, and recently spent a year as night manager for one of the largest adventure hostels in North America. Snowboard instructor, scrum master, product owner, and decent program manger.
Arctic:
Quant, artist, and musician. Working professionally in the wider crypto space as lead analyst at a regulated fund management firm. Very high clock-speed. Advanced econometrics and tokenomics. Taekwondo instructor. Hyper-optimizer, scoring exceptionally highly across all metrics, especially bro metrics.
Arctic and Alpine met at a dank inner city gym and finalised this project proposal at Bunk. These two spaces are probably the main sources of inspiration for the ‘hubs’ and ‘bases’ outlined in this project description.
B-dog
Played soccer for Team Canada, and Aston Villa (Under 18’s first team). Broad logistics and import/export experience from family business. Devout christian. Spends lots of time doing Jiu Jitsu. Recently discovered bitcoin and runs a knots node. Soccer referee. Canadian. Flat earther.
Calvadev
Calvadev is very commited to Nostr at this point, but says he’s down to join an early incubator incubator, without any commitment, and take it from there.
Creator of shopstr.store and milk.market. Often found at Bitcoin conferences. Alumni of Madeira SovEng. Wears blue light blocking glasses from evening until bedtime. Thinks that Nostr is great, but open to alternative stacks/protocols. Alpine is busy trying to Pubky-pill him.
Jawzzy
UBC Economics. Mountain biker. Used to spend all his money on mountain bikes, but now has a dog and a kid. Trad finance background with some time in retail banking. Limited bitcoin knowledge. Canadian. Insta: @spendtimebehindbars
Wavelion
German digital-slomad living in an Atlantic costal town. Currently with an AI startup with responsibility across all areas of finance; he co-ordinated their seed round and Series-A. Enjoys surfing and has a mobile surf van complete with mattress and other amenities. Limited bitcoin knowledge.
